Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This drastic shift in attitudes from my parents' generation to ours stems from the confluence of two factors: the sexual revolution and the subsequent AIDS epidemic. The social scene of my parents' generation (late 1950s to late 1960s) may have been characterized by casual dating, but it also seemed to emphasize the postponement of intimacy, especially sex. Those who were caught up in the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s rebelled against these values, among others. Suddenly, having multiple dates meant having multiple sexual partners. Though other social factors are certainly at work, it's telling that the birth...
...with only 60% of the blueprint complete. Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones was fired for mismanagement...
...Life, a 1955 book that combines his pictures of Harlem life with text by the poet Langston Hughes. If the book is sometimes guilty of the blandness of concerned photography, it also contains pictures that mark the beginning of DeCarava's best work, most of which dates from the 1950s and '60s. His street pictures speak in the international language of the snapshot aesthetic. Figures are cut by the edges of the frame. Serendipitous little details, like the windblown edge of a scarf, take on large but ambiguous meaning. But because DeCarava is black, or because his subjects are, those...
What the painter Ad Reinhardt did in his black-on-black abstractions of the 1950s, DeCarava does with these photographs, teasing out the psychological and spiritual powers of darkness. One thing shadows tell you is that nothing worth knowing is instantly fathomable. When DeCarava is at his best, he sees things in that light...
...LITTLE STATUE OF A NAKED Cupid blushed unseen, or largely so, for some 90 years in the same spot: a mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue designed by Stanford White. In the 1950s the building was sold to the French government and became a quasi-public space entered daily by employees and visitors. There the Cupid still stood, looking like nothing more than a piece of Gilded Age gimcrackery...